From Fritz Müller 9 January 1881
Summary
Thanks for CD’s offer of assistance after flood damage.
Comments on Movement in plants. Discusses sleep movements and paraheliotropism of Maranta and other plants.
Describes the fertilisation of figs by Hymenoptera.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 217–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12996 |
To G. H. Darwin 25 November [1881]
Summary
Last issue of Nature has made him "awfully proud". [See R. S. Ball, "A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13511 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 18 January [1881]
Summary
Thanks for Movement in plants. Praises the terms CD introduces, but criticises CD’s use of the teleological word "purpose".
Outlines his efforts to study the inheritance of characters in his family. F. Galton overemphasises the inheritance of good qualities.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13017 |
From Charles Mostyn Owen 29 May 1881
Author: | Charles Mostyn Owen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 202–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13182 |
From W. M. Hacon 13 September 1881
Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13335 |
From W. E. Darwin [13 March 1881]
Summary
Cannot write so is using Lily as secretary. Proud to be member of Geological Society. Sends observations of rhododendron leaves. Could not find piece of ploughed land. Has proved Josiah Wedgwood III’s death in North Eastern Railway Company. Taking care because head hurts.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Mar 1881] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 101) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13141F |
To W. E. Darwin 13 September [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13334 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 and 4 September [1881]
Summary
Praises JDH’s York address.
S. B. J. Skertchly has paralleled Axel Blytt’s work in Cambridgeshire fens.
JDH too cautious on southern glacial period.
Is Kew interested in Azores plants collected by Arruda Furtado, a local inhabitant and an evolutionist?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 and 4 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 532–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13316 |
From W. E. Darwin [16 January 1881]
Summary
Thanks CD for writing for papers to enter Geological Society. Will return Leslie Stephen’s letter. Has had a severe frost. Emma’s puppy died.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Jan 1881] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13023F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 January 1881 , and letter from Leslie Stephen, 12 January [1881] ). Leonard Darwin had suggested adding an errata sheet to unsold copies of Erasmus Darwin (see letter from Leonard Darwin to Leslie Stephen, [10 January 1881] ). Leonard was ill in London ( letter from Emma Darwin to Sara Darwin, [13 …
To W. E. Darwin 14 January [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13013 |
To Nature 7 November [1881]
Summary
Summarises letter of William Nation [13350]. The facts given strongly support the conclusion that there is some close connection between the parasitic habits of birds that lay their eggs in others’ nests and the fact of their laying eggs at "considerable intervals of time".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 7 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | Nature, 17 November 1881, p. 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13471 |
From Leonard Darwin 12 October [1881]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13395 |
From T. H. Farrer 5 November 1881
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Nov 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13461 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 Bryanston Square, London. Farrer’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for Earthworms (see Appendix IV). Proponents of fair trade advocated selective use of tariffs; on debates over fair trade and free trade in 1881, see Biagini 1992 , pp. 132–4. Farrer later wrote a detailed study of the issue and advocated free trade (see Farrer 1882 ). CD discussed the valuable role of worms in turning and enriching the soil (see Earthworms , pp. 312–13, …
To W. E. Darwin 3 January [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12973 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 August 1881
Summary
Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.
Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".
Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.
Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 518–23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13277 |
From Anthony Rich 2 September [1881]
Author: | Anthony Rich |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13314 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 13). Rich was acquainted with George Howard Darwin and William Erasmus Darwin . The British Association for the Advancement of Science met in York from 31 August to 7 September ( Report of the 51st Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1881)). Because of E. A. Darwin ’s death on 26 August, George attended only the last day of the meeting (see letter from G. H. Darwin, 28 August 1881 and n. 11). …
From J. D. Hooker 20 August 1881
Summary
Is making final preparations for his address [at York BAAS meeting] and questions CD on specific points.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 162–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13291 |
To Fritz Müller 23 February 1881
Summary
CD interested by FM’s facts on movement of plants; has sent some to Nature ["Movement of leaves", Collected papers 2: 228–9]. Greatly admires FM’s work. Suggests an experiment to investigate movement in Phyllanthus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 23 Feb 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13064 |
From Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin [14 October 1881]
Summary
Arrangements for the disposal of the contents of Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house at 6 Queen Anne Street, London.
The text on EAD’s gravestone.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [14 Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.3: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13400F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 s. 3 d. to ‘Taylors removing Furniture’ on 18 November 1881; the firm has not been further identified. No earlier correspondence about the inscription for Erasmus Alvey’s gravestone has been found, but see the letter from G. H. Darwin, 15 October 1881 . The Darwins visited Cambridge from 20 to 27 October 1881 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell had been arrested on 13 …
To Fritz Müller 20 March 1881
Summary
FM’s view on meaning of two-coloured stamens in many flowers; CD has been looking through his old notes on dimorphism for supporting evidence. Intends to send extract of FM’s letter to Nature or to Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 20 Mar 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13091 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11, letter to Hermann Crüger, 25 January [1863] , and letter from Hermann Crüger, 23 April 1863 . Crüger noted that in all cases he observed the bee came only for pollen. CD began writing Earthworms in the autumn of 1880 (see Correspondence vol. 28 (Appendix II)). CD made new observations on Monochaetum ensiferum and Centradenia floribunda in April 1881 (DAR 205.8: 21, 43) and on Clarkia elegans between July 1881 and March 1882 (DAR 67: 82–3, 112–13). …
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Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Müller, Fritz | (3) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |